Open Letter to Dr. Turnbull of CMA

Dr. Turnbull

I am sure I am not the only one who thinks you need to look into the power structures within the medical practice. GPs trying to help their patients with MS have apparently been threatened by the various Colleges of Physicians and Surgeons across Canada if the patient is interested in having venoplasty done to relieve their symptoms. I say apparently because they will not go on the record for fear of having their livelihood taken away by these groups. It’s a kind of Catch 22 situation that neither the GPs nor the patients can (or possibly in the case of doctors) will be specific about. However, patients looking for aftercare for a venoplasty are most often turned down. Patients wanting to learn if poor blood flow may be their problem are routinely turned down. The various Colleges publicly say they will see that it is given but privately, they appear to do everything in their power to prevent it. I have seen this maneuver before. Not in medical circles but in legal cases – I used to work in a criminal law office. It is a maneuver often used by criminals as part of their various scams. Say one thing but do another, especially if there is no way for the average person outside of law enforcement to prove it. 

It would appear that the Code of Ethics is being rewritten to accommodate  a few doctors who’s power stems more from the money they have and can continue to amass doing nothing viable, than from the knowledge they should have. Medicine is no place for closed minds and it is certainly no place for common scams to be perpetrated on sick people who are desperate after 50 plus years of expensive drugs that apparently do nothing for the patient.

It also appears that there is a misconception, mostly found among our MS neurologists, that MS patients, because they are often hit with ‘cog fog’ are also innately unintelligent and stupid. This is definitely not the case. Just in case you do not understand ‘cog fog’, it is an inability to get the information one knows up front and deliverable at a specific moment in a conversation. It does, inevitably, come forward though quite often too late to use in that particular conversation or, should the other party know or think they know what one is trying to say, they will fill it in and the MS patient will recognize it as what they intended or recognize that it was not what they intended. Stupidity is not having the knowledge in the first place.

You really need to put help and compassion back into medicine, particularly for the MS patient who cannot get simple, less costly treatments that at least return some quality to their lives. You really need to remove the discrimination afforded pwMS – not every little thing that goes wrong with my body is automatically MS related. Treatments that are readily available to everyone else are refused to me and my fellow MSers.You really need to put a leash on the handful of doctors preventing us from having that quality in our lives.

Very Sincerely

Karen Copeland
MS Patient

Pharma and Big Pharma - 2 different things!

The More Things Change, The More They Stay The Same

At one time, as far back as the Ancient Babylon of the Bible, if you were a helpful, decent person Pharma meant natural plant medicines or, if you were an evil sorcerer it meant natural plant poisons. The definitive word was NATURAL. Both apparently worked well. You got better with useful natural plants or you died if someone slipped you a poison concoction - for years hemlock was a favored poison.

So it should not surprise anyone when Marijuana turns out to be one of those ‘good’ plants. Partly that came about because Marijuana became a social fad for fun and games. Of course, so is alcohol a social thing. It is also derived from plants and it can also be helpful medically. What they both have in common is that when over done, they turn people into babbling idiots who say and do stupid things. What alcohol had over marijuana is that it was an ‘adult’ thing and marijuana was a teen thing and everyone knows teens have no control. So we outlawed Marijuana. Takes care of those pesky teens!  NOT!! We also made it impossible to use it both legally and medicinally.

The trouble here is that it is not just Marijuana. There is an effort by the modern Pharmaceutical companies to use their influence (read money) to keep any natural medicine out of the mainstream and off all doctor’s prescription pads and out of their vocabularies. After all, if we find out that natural things like Aloe Ferox or Devil’s Claw or Marijuana relieve pain, then we will not be buying something like Oxycodone  or other synthesized in a factory drugs. Synthesized drugs are patentable and therefore valuable to the patent holder. You cannot patent natural. Perhaps the means of extraction but not the substance. If I hold the patent on some chemical concoction, I can pretty well name my price – and the Pharmaceutical outfits do a pretty good job of that. All they need to make people want it is a good line (read sales pitch), a good salesman – no better salesman for a medicinal concoction than a doctor and a desperate consumer (read Mark) Oh Gee! The standard pattern for a Scam! Now buy your way into the hearts of politicians and you can even run your scam legally.

So now we have doctors, who have learned their lines well (though I swear they have no idea or do not want to have any idea of the scam they are perpetuating) selling drugs of dubious ingredients, dubious results and outrageous side effects for some and for bigger than life amounts of money treating sick people who have often reached the point of desperation – it has been over 50 years since any disease or condition has had a cure for it found.

While this is not true of all doctors, it does appear to be the case for most neurologists dealing with the so called “autoimmune diseases’.  They know no facts about these diseases – there are very few documented facts to know and the ones that are there to learn can only be taught by those doing the suffering. As a good many of us have found out the hard way, they do not listen to us so they have learned nothing from us either. These doctors also act as “experts” for the government. They are not experts. They weren’t taught anything useful and they refused to listen to the only ones who can really tell them anything.

People getting any real relief from the symptoms of MS get it using natural items – enzymes, minerals, vitamins, diet changes. Or they have gone out of country and gotten venoplasty which has nothing to do with drugs. Small wonder those doctors making a better than average income derived from the sale of synthesized chemical drugs are upset. They have nothing medical to turn to anymore – they are so out of touch they could not even pretend to be credible in any other medical situation. Their egos will not allow them to drop that low. If they are middle aged or older, they can maybe retire – if they have handled their ill gotten gains with any wisdom, they should be able to do that. If they haven’t, well they certainly have the background to push drugs on the street. But that is a hell of a blow to their vanity. The ones I know are in for a very hard time after their not so little scam is laid out for the world to see.

It will not be the hard time I would like to see them live through. I would like to see them live with MS or Lupus or Parkinson’s or what ever their main focus is. But you can’t have everything. Gee! Sometimes you can’t have anything. I can’t get any real treatment for my MS but I have found a natural thing or two that alleviates a symptom or two and one of these days I will have the money to trip off to Albany N.Y. No thanks to the Canadian Government or the Canadian Medical system. The thanks will all go to others like myself with MS who have fought for equality and treatment, to Dr. Zamboni for a viable treatment but mostly for the courage to go up against the medical powers that be, to a handful of Canadian doctors and politicians who speak out in spite of the flack they take from other doctors and politicians.

Until that future date, I will continue to track down natural aids. I have no nausea and I have the pain under control so Marijuana is not a likely item on my shopping list but if Marijuana works for you, you won’t get any flack from me. Better that than Tysabri or like that.

An Interesting Inside Take on Medicine

 

Below is the beginning of a very interesting article on vaccines and autism.  You might wonder why someone with MS is putting up articles about autism. Several reasons actually. Like MS, autism is considered autoimmune. Like MS, autism is still looking for a cause. Like MS, autism is looking for a cure. Like MS, patients are at the beck and call of neurologists who only know how to sell drugs that don't help, often hinder and are expensive.It may be about autism but it says a lot about the way medicine is practiced these days. So the opinions and comments made by a neuro who is not a pusher for the chemical inventions of big pharma are interesting and perhaps have a clue to something that can help us with our MS. I have highlighted the paragraph that caught my eye and kept me reading.

Vaccines, Neurodevelopment and Autism Spectrum Disorders


The Danger of Excessive Vaccination During Brain Development: The Case for a Link to Autism Spectrum Disorders


Russell L. Blaylock, M.D.

In 1976, children received 10 vaccines before attending school. Today they will receive over 36 injections. The American Academy of Pediatrics and the Center for Disease Control assured parents that it was safe to not only give these vaccines, but that they could be given at one time with complete safety. Is this true? Or are we being lied to on a grand scale?

The medical establishment has created a set of terms, which they use constantly to boost their egos and firm up their authority as the unique holders of medical wisdom–the mantra is “evidence-based medicine”, as if everything outside their anointing touch is bogus and suspect. A careful examination of many of the accepted treatments reveals that most have little or no scientific “evidence-based” data to support it. One often repeated study found that almost 80% of medical practice had no scientific backing.

This is not to say that medical practice should be purely based on pure and applied science, as understood in the fields of physics and chemistry. Medicine, as pointed out by many of the great men of medicine, is an art. For a discussion on the proper role of medicine I refer the reader to my paper titled –Regimentation in Medicine and the Death of Creativity – on my website (www.russellblaylockmd.com).

To read the balance of this article, click on the link below.
http://web.mac.com/rblaylock/Russell_Blaylock_M.D./Articles/Entries/2008/3/12_Vaccines%2C_Neurodevelopment_and_Autism_Spectrum_Disorders.html

Poster #3

Attention:

MS Neuros and Politicians

Go ahead and pull this rope!

Killing me by hanging is way more humane than your present method –

drug cocktails and neglect

Poster #2

BLOOD FLOW!

Can’t leave home without it!

    

My Poster for the Rally on the Hill

My Poster for the Rally on the Hill

The Death Sentence is not

allowed in Canada

unless

You have M.S.

The Death Penalty Doesn't Exist In Canada! Bull Shit!! It's Alive and Well on Parliament Hill

The Death Penalty Doesn't Exist In Canada! Bull Shit!! It's Alive and Well on Parliament Hill

If anyone tells you that Canada does not have a death penalty - DO NOT BELIEVE THEM! Because we most certainly do. Right now there are at least 75,000 people with MS on Death Row, Oh, it's true, we are not behind barbed wire and bars all day. And there is no specific date for us to leave this earth but we are on a death watch nonetheless.

Our shackles are not made of steel. They are formed in our brains, a result of bad blood if you will. Blood that should flow through the body and be cleansed but isn't. All the crud it has picked up on it's trip to the brain, finds it's way to the bottom like silt in flowing water and leaves itself piling up in the brain. Like any other biologically active,  chemically active deposits, it damages the spot where it land. In people the damage is referred to as lesions on the brain and the damage is to the most vulnerable thing it hits - the nerves and nerve endings. We get symptoms such as loss of balance, loss of cognitive abilities, loss of energy, and inability to see properly, an inability to breathe properly, an inability to swallow properly. In short, we end up like human vegetables unable to control anything until we die. If that is not a death sentence, then nothing is.

And it is absolutely counter to any rule put forth by the United Nations or The Human Rights Commission. I would guess that the Human Rights Commission would call knowingly allowing this to happen to be Cruel and Unusual Punishment. Whether they just have not heard that this is happening in Canada or whether this is just one of those things that is found to be totally unbelievable about Canada is anyone's guess. I mean, Isn't Canada the country that gave us Peace Keepers to help save lives? Isn't Canada the country that gave us Insulin and saved untold diabetic lives all these many decades? Is it possible that Canada has sunk this low??

Well yes! It is! Still Canada, with the blessings of the Conservative Government, has done just that. Leona Aglukkaq, the Federal Minister of Health, did what she obviously thought was right. She went to the MS Society and it's neurologists, because she knows absolutely nothing about MS. And there she stopped. Big mistake! Had she done even a wee bit of research herself, she would have wondered what was being done with all that donated money. She'd have found out pretty quickly that it was not going towards anything useful, not even the few bucks, relatively speaking, that was ear-marked for MS research. Being that this is an issue that affects a lot of people, you would at least think she would get a second opinion from a totally different group. But she didn't or if she did, she chose to ignore it. Reminds me of Texas. The Thin Blue Line. And tunnel vision of those in power to play with a man's life for nothing more than corruption of the system. http://www.veoh.com/watch/v18681566sr4JJmmq A film that successfully argued that a man was wrongly convicted for murder by a corrupt justice system in Dallas County, Texas. The question is, "Who is going to argue our case of being wrongfully given a death sentence?"

It isn't our Conservative Government. Apparently the drug companies, bragging about their huge stock incomes have the corporate-thinking heads of government all wrapped up. Between the Oda Affair, the In and Out Affair, the Discrimination Against MSers Affair, The Harper Government Letterhead Affair and on and on, the Conservatives have destroyed all and any hope for a democratic Canada under them. They have totally destroyed any trust I had in them. The Liberals - well no new major scandals as they are not in any position of power but what the hell have they done to earn my trust. Well one exception - Kisty Duncan.The N.D.P.? Same questions. Answer - Nothing. So that is one out of three hundred and five I think it is,and she is not in my riding.

That lack of trust, by the way, is not a Conservative Party thing - it is an all encompassing thing. If it was not, the various parties would be talking about what they would do for us - Canadians. Some how being able to make a citizen's arrest does not seem all that important to me. In 65 years I have never even wanted or needed to. What good is it to me now? I have MS. The fatigue is so bad, I do not get out of the apartment. A citizen's arrest by a lame MSer is going to put a crook breaking in here on the floor in gales of laughter but not much else. Having rifles? What the Sam hell do most of us need rifles for? Surely some small changes in the law will keep the law but make it more useful to those few who need to have a rifle. I do have to say, that I grew up on a farm and there never was a need there just because we were farmers. The N.D.P. have come out with something useful - better Medicare but they were careful not to step on any corporate toes by adding, in a manner of speaking, not for MSers. The Green Party? Well so far she has my consideration. Perhaps it is the way journalists are covering the election but I have seen no hate literature from that corner. She has a platform ... well sort of. And it is vague enough to  keep my interest but not not strong enough to guarantee my vote.


Well that lays waste to hoping for help from Federal politics. Who is next?  The Big "Charitable" Organizations like the MS Society. Well gee whiz! They are not in the business of charity after all. They are in bed with the corporate drug companies. So write them off the list. Lord knows, anything we write gets taken off their sites post haste and not just in Canada. They like to do that in the USA and Great Britain too. Go figure! A Multiple Sclerosis Society that doesn't want to hear from people with Multiple Sclerosis.

Maybe the Provincial Governments?  Don't hold your breath! Most of them look to the Feds and big corporations for income.

Looks like I am in trouble with a bunch of people. I said in a blog, that I think the Conservatives have given me a death penalty and I would not vote for them. And I won't. One lady took offense. She  declared that MS bogs were for talking about MS and politics should not enter into it. Really! If it were not for politics, we would all be treated and treated on our Medicare. Then she told me she would have me banned. Again, Really! It is not her site for starters and it is such a bully tactic. So bloody Conservative. Then another lady came on and told me I was entitled to my opinion, Canada being a free country and all, but she was voting Conservative.She was on my friends list so I was a bit taken aback. She took offense also to my calling the Conservatives the people who had given me a death sentence. And I should not say that. Now let's see. She does not have MS. Her son does. So she is only guessing what it is like. She took him out of the country for treatment so she could afford it and boy did she win the jackpot. I'll bet her son is not as much work as he used to be.  How nice for her but she is still going to approve my death warrant and thousands of others death warrants by putting her X beside a Conservative name on her ballot.Trouble with all of this, is that I find it hard to believe she is a selfish, hate filled person. Right or wrong,I am writing it off to political  naivety. So if you are reading this and you are getting angry because you are planning to vote Conservative, Tough! You put your X there and you are just as guilty as the jerks on the Hill making these decisions. They think they are making them with your blessing. Think before you leap into bed with them. Your X beside their name is your blessing for everything they do, including leaving 75,000 Canadians to die in misery.

I used to be a pretty good typist - back in the days when my fingers hit the keys I told them to hit. This little rant took 2 days to type up. So I am off to bed. God willing, I'll die before morning. I do not want to put in any more days like these past few weeks. If you can afford the treatment, go and get it! Do not delay. You do not want to get where I am right now. Please do not write me. I am an atheist so the God stuff doesn't fizz on me. Don't tell me life is sweet cause it isn't and don't assume that because I wish I were dead that I have the courage or strength to act on it. That would make an
ASS of U and ME. But do write your MP, your MPP, the College of Physicians and Surgeons, the newspapers, the TV stations. Write everyone. :o)